Mot

Mot is Baal's last adversary at Ugarit and swallows him. His voracious appetite matches the biblical language about Sheol closely enough that mythological influence is plausible, though disputed, and Mot likely received no cult in Israel or Judah. DDD's entry on the "firstborn of Death" of Job 18:13 confirms this from the Ugaritic side: Mot carries the epithets "son of El" and "Beloved of El," yet he is absent from every Ugaritic pantheon list, sacrificial list, and offering list, and no sanctuary of his has turned up at Ugarit. Job 18:13's bekor mawet draws on the same figure, and DDD lays out three readings. The phrase may be an idiom for a deadly disease; it may name an actual offspring demon of Mot, on the model of the Mesopotamian Namtar, Ereshkigal's vizier; or it may be an attributive genitive, "Firstborn Death," a title for Mot himself as El's firstborn, which N. Wyatt argues from "Beloved of El" being a legitimation formula and not a term of affection. Isaiah 28:15's covenant with Death is almost universally read as something other than the Ugaritic god, either a foreign nation or a pun on the Egyptian goddess Mut, guarantor of treaties, and since it goes beyond simple personification without clear Ugaritic precedent for a death-covenant, it may be a Hebrew innovation instead of borrowed myth.